Word family flip book

In this activity your child makes a book to help him practice reading word families.

What You’ll Need

6-10 3×5 index cards

Marker, pen or pencil

Stapler

Here’s How to Do It

A word family is a group of words with a common feature or pattern, such as at, cat, bat, hat. Discuss word families with your child. Talk about how the ending letters are the same. Pick a word family (Some other examples are ab, ag, an, am, ap, ar, ed, en, et, id, ig, in, ip, it, ob, og, op, ot, ub, ug, un, ut, um). On one of the index cards write the word family ending on the right half side of a card. Cut the other index cards in half. Have your child write a letter on the halves of the index card that will make a word with the ending. Your child can also write blends such as bl, sh, ch and gr. Staple the half index cards on the left side of the index card with the word family on it. Now your child can flip through the letters and read the words.

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